Sci-Fi Fanatic:Thanks! You're no slouch either. We're gonna be posting more here once the new Embassy has been painted and furnished--and the weather in NYC calms down a bit. But the madness will be back! And if my hand was replaced by a rubber stamp, the stamp would be an image: a woodcut of a Victorian-era lapdog standing on its hindlegs, wearing a butler's uniform. Stay cool!--Ivan

"Today on the 4:30 Movie, Godzilla Vs. Cthulhu!"

That was my original idea for the title of this blog, a sort of summation of nearly everything I'd ever wanted cinematically: regularly playing on the ABC Channel 7 4:30 movie--or on WOR-TV Channel 9's 4 O'Clock Movie--the greatest monster movie in the universe, and incredible combo of miniatures, men in suits and stop motion, with entire continents destroyed!

But then there was a coup d'etat, and Tzar Ivan I of Ivanlandia took charge.